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Carrie Farmer
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Health care and veterans policy researcher. Pittsburgher (New Englander at heart).
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From our new issue: American Support of Public Programs for Veterans: Estimates From a National Survey Including a Discrete Choice Experiment - Jessie Coe, Daniel Schwam, Rajeev Ramchand, Carrie Farmer (@cmf11.bsky.social‬), 2025 #NewIssue journals-sagepub-com.lib-e2.lib.ttu.edu/doi/full/10....
June 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Here is help:
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
US Hotline 988
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
June 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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baym.lol
Corporate administrators who have only experienced jobs whose main benefit was pay cannot fathom that the very best find intrinsic value in excellence and are best left to do it without undue interference or burden
erinwestgate.bsky.social Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · May 24
What happened when they instituted post-tenure review at Florida? The best professors left.
May 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink. (via @stateline.org)
1 in 5 Americans are on Medicaid. Some enrollees have no idea
Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional Republicans are looking to shrink.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs:

"Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..."

www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
VA fires 1,400 more staffers in second round of workforce reductions
About 2,500 VA workers have been forced out of their jobs in the last few weeks.
www.militarytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.
February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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200 million dollars of waste.
Rolling stone headline
February 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I am begging for any news outlet to include info about VA's role training providers, conducting research, and serving as backstop to rest of US healthcare system when covering debate on gutting the VA direct care system
The Battle Over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape VA
GOP wants to let more veterans choose their doctors. Democrats say it's too costly and will disrupt quality of VA care.
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January 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Military disability payments are well deserved. There is a massive glut at the moment because Burn Pit veterans are retiring, and the burn pits caused all kinds of issues, for me as well. And we have no idea what it WILL do to us when we are older. Cont…
December 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
cmf11.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! About to enjoy the best part of the meal.
November 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM